| 英文摘要 |
The present paper discusses how three major genres of fiction represent Chinese nationalism in post-war Taiwan literature as well as the cultural politics behind their narrative form. (1) In anti-communist literature, Marxism is seen as the other of Chinese traditional culture, thereby establishing an identificatory location for national identity. (2) In Taiwanese modernist fiction, its experimentation with language also includes the renewal and rebirth of Chineseness. (3) Despite the 'deconstructionist' narrative techniques brought by postmodernism, what is 'deconstructed,' is not, in specific cases, nationalist narrative, but the institution of modernity. One of the effects of such 'deconstruction' is that ''the Chinese nation' will be seen as a naturalized production of traditional culture, rather than the consequence of modernity. By juxtaposing the Komin literature with Chinese nationalism in Taiwan literature, it becomes more evident that the former’s emphasis is placed on a newborn nation that is modernized and cut off from the indigenous society, rather than the totality of a historically congruous national icon that Chinese nationalism attempts to establish. One version of this nationalist imagination caters to the urban elite while the other to the average members of the nation. To conclude, the Chinese nationalist narratives of Taiwan literature, on the one hand, help amalgamate 'Chinese' regionality and heterogeneity. On the other, the process of conceptualizing the nation-people, in a Gramscian sense, witnessed the creation of a certain ideological adhesive that re-fashions the interests of the ruling regime into the national interests of 'China in its totality' (or Taiwan society). |
